Code Exorcist
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
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A joking title for someone brought in to remove bizarre, haunted-feeling behavior from a system. In engineering humor, the code exorcist specializes in bugs that feel supernatural until enough evidence finally pins them down.
In plain English: A person who gets rid of bizarre or haunted-seeming code behavior.
Example: "They needed a code exorcist for the scheduler because tasks kept duplicating in ways that logs, metrics, and ordinary reasoning all initially failed to explain."